Bill：I heard that the tea culture of China is   (1)  (amaze). Could you tell me something about it.

Ann:Of course. Tea drinking in China is very complicated（复杂）. It starts with the environment. In the past, tea drinking took place in a setting(背景) ___  (2)  ______“spring water ran on marbles” or “ in the woods during sunset.” . __  (3)  ____ present, in order to recreate such an atmosphere, teahouses ___  (4)  _______ (decorate) with traditional paintings and furniture. Besides, there is always a__  (5)  ______(perform) of a traditional Chinese musical instrument, such as the guzheng.

Bill：How about the water?

Ann:In the old days, the water that came from melted snow was regarded as the best. Today no one collects snow any longer because of pollution and __  (6)  ___ people use is bottled water.

Bill：Is there any difference in the tea?

Ann:Generally __  (7)  ____ (speak), there are four kinds of tea: red tea, green tea, Oolong tea and Pu’er tea. The first three types of tea are processed using similar methods but Pu’er tea uses a  __  (8)  ____ (total) different method.

Bill：Is tea drinking in a teahouse very expensive?

Ann:Yes. As __  (9)  __ matter of fact, it is a commercialized hobby now. Many people nowadays go to expensively-decorated teahouses  __  (10)  ___(talk) business.

Martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,   (1)   (direct) by Ang Lee, is not only   (2)   (enjoy), but also a masterpiece. It tells a story   (3)   (take) place in   (4)  early 1800s in China. Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, both masters of the martial arts, are in love with each other, but Mubai feels that he can’t marry Xiulian because Xiulian’s finance is a good friend of   (5)  (he), though Xiulian’s finance has died. When someone steals Xiulian’s sword, Mubai and Xiulian try to get it back. Yu Jiaolong, another female character, is not as good as she seems. The fight scenes between her and Xiulian are   (6)  (excite).   (7)  in the old wuxia stories, characters leap through the air every now and then, with beautiful, graceful movements while audiences shout   (8)  surprise. It makes the hearts of audiences  (9)   (leap) with excitement at its   (10)   (beautiful).

The Amber Room   (1)   (put) up in 1709. It used to belong  (2)   Frederick William I, the first King of Prussia. Peter the Great fell in love with the room on a visit, and in 1716 the King of Prussia sent it to Peter the Great as a gift.

The Amber Room was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and put in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg as a part of a European art collection. It was first open in 1746 in the Winter Palace,  (3)   it was housed till 1755. In 1755, Czarina Elizabeth ordered the room     (4)   (move) to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. An Italian   (5)   (art) Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli redesigned the room to fit into its new larger space,   (6)  (use) extra amber from Berlin.

  (7)   seems hard to believe that boxes of several tons of amber could go missing, and many historians have tried to solve the mystery. Most of them believe   (8)   the boxes were destroyed in the Second World War. One of the more extreme theories is that Stalin   (9)  (actual) had a second Amber Room and the Germans stole a fake (赝品).

The history of the new Amber Room, at least, is known for sure. The reconstruction (重建),  (10)  ​      was based largely on black and white photographs of the original Amber Room, began in 1979 at Tsarskoye Selo and was completed 25 years later.

A friend of mine （1）         (call) Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul （2）        (come) out of his office, a street naughty boy （3）         (call) himself Jim, was walking around the shining car. "Is this your car, Paul?" he asked. Paul answered, "Yes, my brother （4）         (give) it to me for Christmas. " "You mean your brother gave it to you and it  （5）      (not cost) you anything? I wish... " said the （6）          (surprise) boy. He hesitated (犹豫).

Of course Paul  （7）         (know) what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he （8）         (have) a brother like that. But what the boy （9）           (say) surprised Paul greatly. "I wish, " the boy（10）          (go) on, "that I could be a brother like that. "

Though Chinese is   (1)   (old) than English, English is spoken   (2)   many people around the world every day. English speakers are always   (3)   (make) new words and we should be able to know where most words come from.

Sometimes, however, no one may   (4)  (real) know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some   (5)  (man) went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany  (6)   (call) Hamburg.

They did not speak good English,   (7)   they ate good food. When some American saw them   (8)   (eat) round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “We came from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned   (9)    restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of the beef like the man from Hamburg ate and   (10)  (sell) in many countries around the world.

James Long is holding a debate called “The economy or the environment — must we choose?” Lin Shuiqing,   (1)   environmentalist and Qian Liwei, an economist expressed their own opinions.

Mr. Lin holds the opinion   (2)   large areas of the world are damaged by industrial waste. In addition, many sea creatures are being destroyed ___  (3)  ____ fishing boats. Other types of waste flow into the river,  ___  (4)  _____(kill) river and sea life. The world’s population is approaching 6.5 billion. He advises people to cut back    (5)   production, reduce what we make and buy, expand our cycling industry, and meanwhile teach people about environmentally friendly ways of living.

While Mr. Qian thinks economic development is not definitely bad for the environment. Through working side by side with environmentalists, __  (6)  ____ thinks a healthy environment and a stable economy should be possible at the same time. But he does agree that recycling may be the key to __  (7)  _____ (help) both sides. People need more effective laws to preserve the environment   (8)   still allow the economy to grow. Those factories  __  (9)  ____ pollute the environment should have to pay higher taxes.

At last, James says they will open the    (10)   for further discussion.

American police    (1)   (step) up their search for Justin Foster, who went missing last Friday night. He didn’t show    (2)   for lunch the next day. When the event    (3)  (occur), Mrs. Forster was worried and told her husband to call the police.

Witnesses said they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly heard him put on his favorite CD and she also saw a large spaceship    (4)   (fly) outside. She heard Justin shout.

Mavis Wood said that the aliens once taken her    (5)   the UFO and they did some research on her. The whole research was frightening just like a terrible dream.

Police found that Justin    (6)   return home. But they have not found the evidence    (7)   Justin was taken away by aliens. Detectives Sam Peterson,    (8)   took charge of the case, said that they were looking into other    (9)   (possible) too and they would not give up   (10)  ​       they found out what happened.

American police   (1)   (step) up their search for Justin Foster, who went missing last Friday night. He didn’t show   (2)   for lunch the next day. When the event   (3)  (occur), Mrs. Forster was worried and told her husband to call the police.

Witnesses said they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly heard him put on his favorite CD and she also saw a large spaceship   (4)   (fly) outside. She heard Justin shout.

Mavis Wood said that the aliens once taken her   (5)   the UFO and they did some research on her. The whole research was frightening just like a terrible dream.

Police found that Justin   (6)   return home. But they have not found the evidence   (7)   Justin was taken away by aliens. Detectives Sam Peterson,   (8)   took charge of the case, said that they were looking into other   (9)   (possible) too and they would not give up  (10)  ​      they found out what happened.